Amazon wants to analyze real-time data with Kinesis [Video]

The managed service is now available as a public beta and can be used to help enterprises analyze things such as financial information

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Amazon Web Services hopes enterprises are willing to rely on the company when getting large amounts of data ready for analysis with its latest service, Kinesis.

Kinesis was first made available as a limited preview last month, but is now available as a public beta. It is a managed service designed to handle real-time streams of data. It can collect and process large amounts of data, from any number of sources, including server logs and social media feeds, according to Amazon.

The pitch is the same as for many of Amazon’s other hosted services. In this case, enterprises don’t have to worry about provisioning, deploying and maintaining hardware and …